A lost dog wandering loose along a road held up a bus driver on his route this morning.

Reading Buses had to stop it's Sonning Common service to care for the missing dog while its owner was located.

After spotting the dog in the road, the driver of the Pink 25 10.34am service pulled over to see if it was hurt or unwell.

The dog's collar revealed it's owners lived near Henley and the driver radioed through to alert the control room of the situation. While the driver was waiting for the owners the dog then got on the bus.

Jayne Foster, on the customer service team at Reading Buses said: "The owners have been contacted.

"The driver is doing a good deed, he checked it was okay.

"We said hold on and we'll contact the owners.

"We didn't feel it was appropriate to let the dog carry on wandering across the road."

There were no passengers on the Pink 25 bus at the time and all other Pink services will continue as planned.